KINGSTON – The Kingston Common Council Tuesday approved premium pay bonuses for city employees who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alderman Reynolds Scott-Childress was pleased to lend his support to the plan.
“These are people who, even in dire circumstances, continued to work, climbed down our sewers to repair them. Go to fires and put them out. Take care of people in distress,” said Reynolds Scott-Childress, Ward 3 alderman. “This is pretty amazing at what our city officials, city workers did throughout the entire process. I am very happy we can extend to them this particular bonus.”
The city is appropriating nearly $688,000, with $300,000 in American Rescue plan funding, for $3,000 bonuses that will go to full-time union employees who worked 100 percent of the time from the commencement of the pandemic from March 13, 2020 to the end of the mayor’s declaration of the state of emergency, July, 2, 2021. Part-time employees who worked 100 percent of the time will get $1,500 bonuses.
Full-time employees, during same time period, who were on 40 percent to nearly 75 percent of the payrolls will receive $1,500 bonuses, and part-time employees will receive $750 for the same payroll times.
The city is also paying about $76,000 to management staff not covered by a union contract.
